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Garbage Day Never Comes for Naples

Corrupt and inconsistent mob-controlled garbage collection in Naples, Italy, has left the city swimming in uncollected trash and with little hope of a resolution.

September 5, 2008 - The Los Angeles Times

Living in a Zero-Waste City

In Kamikatsu, Japan, waste is not a problem -- mainly because new policies practically forbid it. But citizens have adapted to their new zero-waste lifestyle.

July 15, 2008 - BBC

Turning Garbage into Power

A new technology called plasma gasification may make landfills a thing of the past, and make city garbage collection a profitable service.

June 4, 2008 - Popular Science

Landfill Gas To Fuel Garbage Trucks

In an incredible recycling operation that reduces global warming, a waste hauler is building a facility to produce Liquefied Natural Gas from methane emitted from its California landfill to fuel its garbage trucks.

May 7, 2008 - The Sacramento Bee

The Island of Garbage

This 12-part video series from Vice gives a gritty look at the Texas-sized patch of plastic flotsam that has formed in the Pacific Ocean -- and the global environmental and health hazards it presents.

April 25, 2008 - VBS

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